Marissa Clarke
Thesis title: Listening to Kinaesthetic Experiences: A Phenomenological, Pedagogical and Sonic Inquiry into Vinyasa Yoga Practices
Religious Studies
Year of study: 4
- School of Divinity
- Edinburgh College of Art
Contact details
- Email: s1691304@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
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School of Divinity, Mound Place
Edinburgh - City
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- EH1 2LX
Background
Marissa Clarke is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh (2021 - 2025) and was a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2024). Her research explores the phenomenology of yoga, the body, and sound. She has an interdisciplinary background in yoga studies, religious studies, marketing studies, and health research. Her work is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
Qualifications
MSc International Marketing, Distinction
University of Strathclyde, Sep 2017 – Aug 2018
BA (Hons) Marketing, First Class
University of Strathclyde, Sep 2011 – Aug 2015
Undergraduate teaching
- UG, Guest Lecturer, Gender, Body, and Sound, UFRGS (SEM 2, 2023/2024)
- UG, Tutor, Studying Religions, University of Edinburgh (SEM 1, 2023/2024)
- UG, Tutor, Religion in Modern Britian, University of Edinburgh (SEM 2, 2022/2023)
- PG, Guest Lecturer, New Spiritualities, University of Edinburgh (SEM 1, 2022/2023)
Conference details
Clarke, M (2024) AI, Embodiment, and the Metaphysical Wound, Bodies of Knowledge: Digital Body Festival, University College London/Arts Council England, Hackney Wick, UK
Clarke, M (2024) Acoustemologies of Breath: Sounding and Listening in Contemporary Yoga, Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: Introspection, Inspiration, Institutionalisation, University of Hamburg, Germany
Clarke, M (2022) Yoga and The Gig Economy: Pandemic, Precarity and Yoga Teacher Labour, Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: Methods, Migrations, Mediations, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland